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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD DE JONG, OF MANCHESTER, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND.

TicKET-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,479, dated May 17, 1881.

Application tiled March Q5, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD DE JONG, of the city of Manchester, in the county ot' Lancaster, in England, Great Britain, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Controlling an d Registering the Issue of Tickets or Checks for Admission to Public Entertainments and other Places, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an arrangement by which the issue of tickets or checks for admission to public entertainments or other places is controlled in such a manner that no such ticket or check can be sold or issued without being duly registered, and that the number so sold or issued may be ascertained at any moment. For this purpose I provide the pay-office with an opening or openings suiiiciently large to pass the largest coin zo in circulation, and I make the tickets or checks of metal, ivory, or other hard materials, of suitable shape and of such a size that they will not pass through the opening or openings provided for the passage of money, but can only be passed through a special opening provided for them, and which necessitates their passing first through a registering apparatus. This consists of an ordinary counter, which is actuated by a suitable device receiving motion 3o from the passage of the tickets or checks, and

consists of a disk, wheel, slide, or similar mechanism, preferably a spiked or toothed wheel, the points, teeth, or spikes of which are engaged by corresponding openings in the tickets or checks when passing under the wheel.

In the accompanying drawings I illustrate an example of my apparatus; but the same may be considerably varied in detail without departing from the general construction.

Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts.

Figure 1 represents an elevation of the pay desk or window with the registering apparatus attached ro it, as seen from the interior of the pay-ofce. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan;

Fig. 3, a cross-section atA B; Fig. 4, a section at C D; and Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 show different f'orms of tickets or checks.

I is the interior of the pay-office, and E the 5o exterior.

O is the pay-window, C the sill of the same or pay-desk, and 0 o 0 are openings in the paywindow for the passage of money.

T are tickets or checks.

X is a case containing the registering apparatus, which may be secured with lock and key, if desired.

H is a handle, which, by means of an eccentric and connecting rod or other arrangement, imparts a reciprocating movement to the lever L, workingon the centerZ and movin g a slide, S.

G is a ticket holder and guide, in which a number of tickets,T, may be piled up, the slide when actuated pushing the bottom one ont ot' the pile under or toward the toothed wheel WV, which subsequently is engaged by the hole in the ticket and compelled to make part of a revolution while a ticket is being pushed under it and forward through the slit K, from where it may then be removed by any one outside the pay-otce.

A ratchet-wheel, It, is placed on the spindle carrying the handle IAI, the catch or pawl I), held by the spring Y, preventing the handle H being turned backward. A bevel-edged pin, Q, automatically lifted by the forward action of the checks on the beveled edge or inclined plane, also prevents any backward movement of the checks by dropping in one of their holes or openings. The handle II, with ratchet and pawl, connecting-rod, and lever L, may be dispensed with, if desired, and the checks may be propelled by hand.

The arbor or spiinlle-fcarrying the wheel W gives motion to any appropriate counting apparatus, (denoted by M,) which may have such suitable indicator dial-faces, F, as may be thought desirable.

If the number of tickets or checks in use is insufficient, a second apparatus may be employed for returning the tickets into the payoflice. Different shapes of tickets may also be employed at different times as a further safeguard, each different shape requiring a ditferent wheel, NV.

It will be observed that instead of the wheel W any other suitable revolving, oscillating, or reciprocating device may be used that will give motion to the registering apparatus each time a ticket or check is passed under it. The pay- IOO desk and the ticket-desk may also be kept separate, and it will generally be understood that I do not limit myself to precise details; but

I claim substantially as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1 In a money-receivin g and ticket-delivering apparatus, in which are used non-iexible tickets of a breadth larger than that of the largest current coins, in combination with the wheel or its described equivalent, arranged to be actuated by each passing ticket before its delivery to register or count the same, a coinpas sage adapted for the passage of the largest coins, but of a size too small for the delivery of the tickets, substantially as shown and described.

2. In combination, the guide G, slide S, pin Q, slit K, and toothed wheel XV, or its described equivalents, as and for the purposes described.

3. The described apparatus, consisting of the handle H, connected, as described7 with lever H, slide S, ticket guide or holder G, pin Q, slit K, toothed Wheel W, and openings o o as and for the purposes set forth.

EDWARD DE JONG.

Witnesses:

Jer-1N SMALLSHAW, Notary Public, Southport, Lancashire, England.

I. E. IIoDsON,

His Clerk, Southport. 

